Projects selected for funding may receive requests for additional detail, including project timeline and cash flow projections. CPB may ask applicants to work with other individuals or institutions to achieve proposed outcomes. Applicants may neither begin work nor announce funding before a grant document or contract has been executed.
When CPB selects a project, CPB will require the applicant to sign a binding CPB grant document or contract containing terms acceptable to CPB. Until a grant document or contract is signed by both the applicant and CPB, CPB makes no express or implied commitment to support a project financially. CPB cannot authorize applicants to commence work on a project until the grant document or contract is fully executed. If an applicant opts to commence work, it will be at the applicant's own financial risk, and CPB will not reimburse any expenses if CPB elects not to enter into a contractual relationship with the Applicant. No oral or written statements other than the signed, written grant document or contract will govern or modify the relationship.
Those receiving funds from CPB must be able to comply with a number of requirements that will be included in the operative agreement. All Applicants are advised to familiarize themselves with these Grant Requirements before applying. Applicants should read Terms and Conditions for Television, Radio and Other Media Production Grants in advance of submitting any proposal.
Proposals that initially do not receive funding may be resubmitted up to three times. After that, Applicants must obtain prior approval from CPB before a given proposal may be resubmitted.
Determining Priorities
In setting priorities for the Program Fund in 2005, the CPB Radio staff began by referring to CPB's Goals and Objectives as approved by the CPB Board. Then, on December 3, 2004, CPB convened a panel of programming experts from stations, networks, and independent producers, who spent almost an entire day discussing public radio programming and potential priorities for national program initiatives. Following the discussion, we sent the meeting summary to a small group of station managers to ensure that the thinking developed in the programmer's meeting was consistent with the reality of those actually managing stations.